Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Champions League QF: Inter Milan vs Schalke Preview (2nd Leg)

Inter Milan, will have to work really hard to overturn a 3-point deficit. With Schalke coming in with 5 away goals from a stunning 1st Leg win, Inter would really need to score a lot of goals.But I think It think, other than scoring goals, they should also have to fix their defense problems which was the cause of them conceding 5 goals to Schalke in the last match.Aren’t Italians known for their very organized defense?Or was it Germany?

Initially, I was rooting for Inter on this side of the table, but somehow the defending champions, doesn’t seem to be the strong team they were last season. Now I’m rooting for Schalke, with Raul leading the way to defeat Man U. And hopefully, face off with Barca in the finals J

Aggregate Score:

Schalke: 5

For the win:

Inter Milan:

Except for a 1 - 0 (in their favour), Chelsea just needs to score at least one more than the Man U, but the more goals they can produce, the better as these will be valuable away goals in case the final aggregate score will end on a tie.

Here's my attempt in being an “expert”... Below are score combinations showing which team can quailify to the next round.

Inter Milan

Schalke

0

0

1

0

2

0

3

0

4

0

5

0

1

1

2

1

3

1

4

1

5

1

6

1

1

2

2

2

3

2

4

2

5

2

6

2

7

2

1

3

2

3

3

3

5

3

1

4

2

4

3

4

7

4

Highlighted in yellow means that that team will will proceed to the Quarter finals. Pink means the aggregate score as well as the number of away goals is a tie, so I dunno if they'll do extra time, shoot out or coin toss...